Clan Saobina exports timber, herbal aids and medications – which it grows and mixes in its own fields and workshops.

Clan Sorai

Named after a powerful daughter of the third Kai, Clan Sorai is often allied with clans Adama and Saobina in political affairs. They are also the clan responsible for the safety and security of Asona harbor, the country’s single largest trading link to the outside world.

Clan Sorila

Clan nearest the Temple of Oma, in Dhai. Primary export is timber.

Clan Taosina

Named for Faith Ahya’s second daughter, clan Taosina – like clans Saobina and Sorila – borders the woodlands. Pottery and complex, plant-derived technologies such as bioluminescent floor or ceiling lighting solutions, self-cleaning fungus floors and the like are generally created and installed by Taosina crafters.

Cora

A dajian who lives with Emlee in the Dorinah slave camps.

Dajian

In Dorinah, enslaved Dhai people are called dajians. They are often branded with the mark of the family that owns them.

Daolyn

Dajian owned by Zezili Hasaria. Works as Zezili’s housekeeper.

Daorian

The seat of the Empress of Dorinah. A broad, rambling city built on the ruins of the former Saiduan city of Diamia.

Dasai Elasora Daora

An elder Ora, over a century old, who teaches Saiduan language, culture and history at the Temple of Oma.

Dhai

Small country located on the northwest corner of the island of Grania, an island at the far tip of the Saiduanese continent. Also the name of the people inhabiting this country. Dhai was established 500 years ago by former slaves fleeing their masters in the neighboring country of Dorinah. It’s said the satellite called Sina was especially powerful during that time, allowing Dhai sinajistas, who outnumbered sinajistas among the Dorinah, to escape their servitude.

Dokai

Guards of the holds in Saiduan, bound to live or die as the hold itself does.

Dorinah

Country on the northeast shore of Grania, ruled by a long line of Empresses for the last 1800 years. Relies on the enslaved labor of Dhai people – known locally as dajians – to sustain its infrastructure and economy.

Driaa Saarik, Shao

A Saiduan sanisi. Parajista.

Elaiko Sirana Nako

An Ora at the Temple of Oma and assistant to Nasaka Lokana Saiz. Comes from a family specializing in tea blends. A tirajista.

Emlee

Local healer/midwife/sorceress residing in a dajian camp in Dorinah.

Esao Josa

Granddaughter of Nirata Josa, a woodland Dhai.

Etena Mia Sorai

Aunt to the Kai of the Dhai. Etena was driven mad by her own power and supplanted as Kai by her sister, Javia Mia Sorai. She was exiled from Dhai, and her current whereabouts are unknown.

Everpine

Massive conifer, the sap of which dissuades bugs and many species of sentient plants.

Faith Ahya